My previous lawyer has quoted £1350 for no move no fee conveyancing in Cookham. I am hoping to sell a newly refurbished detached home for £275,000. Are the quoted fees excessive? Is it in excess of what I should be paying for conveyancing in Cookham?
The charges are a tad high. If you are prepared to spend time contrasting charges you may be able to decrease the fees marginally by as much as £125. That being said, you maylive to regret choosing an an unknown lawyer. Remember to enquire the firm can represent your mortgage company. Do make use of our comparison tool to select a Cookham conveyancing company on the banks approved list of lawyers which can often include conveyancing solicitors in Cookham.
Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance for my purchase of a house in Cookham. My lender is Virgin
Virgin have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 12/8/2025, the requirements read as follows :
My colleague suggested that if I am buying in Cookham I should carry out a Neighbourhood, Planning and Local Amenity Search. Can you explain what the purpose of this search is?
This is a search is sometimes included in the estimate for your Cookham conveyancing searches. It is not a small report of more than thirty pages, listing and setting out important information about Cookham around the property and the people living there. It includes an Aerial Photograph, Planning Applications, Land Use, Mobile Phone Masts, Rights of Way, the Cookham Housing Market, Council Tax Banding, the type of People living in the area, the dominant type of Housing, the Average Property Price, Crime details, Local Education with maps and statistics, Local Amenities and other useful information concerning Cookham.
Due to the input of my in-laws I had a survey completed on a house in Cookham before retaining lawyers. I have been told that there is a flying freehold element to the property. Our surveyor advised that some lenders will not grant a mortgage on such a premises.
It varies from the lender to lender. Santander has different instructions from Birmingham Midshires. If you contact us we can check with the appropriate bank. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can help as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Cookham. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Cookham to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.
Should I go with a Cookham conveyancing solicitor who is local to the property I am hoping to buy? I have an old university friend who can conduct the legal work but her office is approximately 350miles away.
The primary upside of using a high street Cookham conveyancing firm is that you can visit the firm to sign paperwork, hand in your identification documents and pester them if necessary. They will also have local intelligence which is a plus. That being said nothing is more important than finding someone that will pull out all the stops for you. If if people you trust instructed your friend and in the main were impressed that should outweigh using an unfamiliar Cookham conveyancing solicitor solely due to them being local.